Gong Li (simplified Chinese: 巩俐; traditional Chinese: 巩俐; pinyin: Gǒng Lì; born December 31, 1965) is a China-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.[1]

She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.

She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.[2]

Contents [show]

1 Early life

2 Career

3 Personal life

4 Filmography

5 Other information

6 Other works

7 See also

8 Notes

9 External links

[edit] Early life

Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, the fifth child in her family. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher.[3] Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong.

Gong was accepted to the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1985, and graduated in 1989.[4] While as a student at Central Academy of Drama, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who chose her for the lead role in Red Sorghum, his first film as a director.[5]

[edit] Career

Over the next several years after her 1987 debut in Red Sorghum, Gong received international acclaim for her roles in several more Zhang Yimou films:[6] She appeared in Ju Dou in 1990; Her performance in the Oscar-nominated Raise the Red Lantern put her in the international spotlight;[5] In The Story of Qiu Ju, she was named Best Actress at the 1992 Venice Film Festival. These roles established her reputation, according to Asiaweek, as "one of the world's most glamorous movie stars and an elegant throwback to Hollywood's golden era."[5]

In June 1998, Gong Li became a recipient of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Two years later, she was invited by the Berlin Film Festival to be the president of its international jury at the festival's 50th anniversary (2001 February) [7]

In 1993 she received a New York Film Critics Circle award for her role in Farewell My Concubine. Directed by Chen Kaige, the film was her first major role with a director other than Zhang Yimou. In 2006, Premiere Magazine ranked her performance in Farewell My Concubine as the 89th greatest performances of all time.

Gong Li was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 16 October 2000.[8]

Immune to political repercussions because of her fame, Gong Li began criticizing the censorship policy in China. Her films Farewell My Concubine and The Story of Qiu Ju were initially banned in China for being thinly-veiled critiques of the Chinese government.[7] Regarding the sexual content in Ju Dou, Chinese censorship deemed the film "a bad influence on the physical and spiritual health of young people."[6]

Despite her popularity, Gong avoided Hollywood for years, due to a lack of confidence in speaking English.[9] She made her English speaking debut in 2005 when she starred as the beautiful but vindictive Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha. Her performance was met with generally positive reviews.[10]

Her other English-language roles to date included Chinese Box in 1997, Miami Vice in 2006 and Hannibal Rising in 2007. In all three films, she learned her English lines phonetically.

[edit] Personal life

Her collaboration with director Zhang Yimou was highly publicized, but an affair with Zhang created a scandal that ended their professional relationship in 1995. They were, however, reunited in 2006 for Zhang's Curse of the Golden Flower.

In 1996, news began circulating that Gong had married Singaporean tobacco tycoon, Ooi Hoe Soeng (黄和祥). They were married in November 1996 at Hong Kong's China Club.[11][12]

Gong Li applied for Singapore citizenship in early 2008.[2] When overseas professional obligations prevented her from showing up at her scheduled August citizenship ceremony, she was harshly criticized for not making it a priority.[2] On Saturday November 8, 2008, Gong, in an effort to make amends, attended a citizenship ceremony held at Teck Ghee Community Club and received her Singapore citizenship certificate from Member of Parliament Lee Bee Wah.[2]

[edit] Filmography

Year English title Chinese title Role Notes

1987 Red Sorghum 红高梁 My Grandma Zhang Yimou's directorial debut, Golden Bear winner of 1988

1989 The Empress Dowager 西太后 Guilian

Mr. Sunshine 开心巨无霸

Codename Cougar 代号美洲豹 Ah Li Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1989

1990 A Terracotta Warrior 秦俑 Winter/Lili Chu Nominated – Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress

Ju Dou 菊豆 Ju Dou First Chinese film nominated for an Academy Award, entered at Cannes

1991 God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai 赌侠2之上海滩赌圣 Yu-Sin/Yu-Mong

Raise the Red Lantern 大红灯笼高高挂 Songlian see Raise the Red Lantern#Awards and wins

The Banquet 豪门夜宴 Waitress at banquet

1992 The Story of Qiu Ju 秋菊打官司 Qiu Ju Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress, 1993

Volpi Cup (Venice Film Festival) for Best Actress

Mary from Beijing 梦醒时分 Mary

1993 Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬 Juxian New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress

Flirting Scholar 唐伯虎点秋香 Chow Heung

1994 Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountain 新天龙八部之天山童姥 Mo Han-Wen

A Soul Haunted by Painting 画魂 Pan Yuliang

To Live 活着 Xu Jiazhen Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress

King of Western Chu 西楚霸王 Lu Zhi

1995 Shanghai Triad 摇啊摇,摇到外婆桥 Xiao Jingbao

1996 Temptress Moon 风月 Pang Ruyi Nominated – Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, 1997

1997 Chinese Box 中国匣子 Vivian

1998 The Emperor and the Assassin 荆柯刺秦王 Lady Zhao

2000 Breaking the Silence 漂亮妈妈 Sun Liying Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress, 2000

Montreal World Film Festival for Best Actress, 2000

2002 Zhou Yu's Train 周渔的火车 Zhou Yu

2004 2046 2046 Su Li Zhen Wong Kar-wai, director

Eros 爱神 Miss Hua

2005 Memoirs of a Geisha 艺伎回忆录 Hatsumomo National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

2006 Miami Vice 迈阿密风暴 Isabella

Curse of the Golden Flower 满城尽带黄金甲 Empress Phoenix Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, 2007

Hong Kong Film Critics Award for Best Actress, 2007

2007 Hannibal Rising 沉默的羔羊前传之揭开罪幕 Lady Murasaki Shikibu Lecter

2010 Shanghai 上海 Anna Lan-Ting

Other works

She narrated "Beijing" (2008), an audio walking tour by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk[16][17], which won an Audie Award for best Original Work (2009)

Notes

^ Kehr, Dave (2004-07-16). "Torn Between a Dreamy Idealist and a Veterinarian". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6DC143AF935A25754C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved 2008-01-07.

^ a b c d Chong, Chee Kin (2008). "Gong Li is now a S'porean", Breaking News: Lifestyle, The Straits Times, November 10, 2008, www.straitstimes.com

^ Gong Li Sidebar

^ Gong Li Biography - Barnes & Noble.com

^ a b c Ghahremani, Yasmin; Stanmeyer, Anastacia (1999-09-24), "Nation builders". Asiaweek. 25 (38):74

^ a b Dargis, Manohla (2004-12-05), "Glamour's New Orientation". New York Times. 154 (53054):Arts & Leisure 1

^ a b No byline (2000-02-25), "FIRST LADY OF FILM". Asiaweek. 26 (7):34

^ "Gong Li". Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-gongli/en/. Retrieved September 16, 2009.

^ The Women of ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' | Memoirs of a Geisha | Movie News | Movies | Entertainment Weekly | 3

^ Lyttle, John (2006-01-16), "The eastern affront". New Statesman, 135 (4775):47

^ No byline (1997-02-10), "Gong Li & Ooi Hoe Seong". People. 47 (5):112

^ Louie, Elaine (1996-10-29), "Chronicle:Gong Li". New York Times. 146 (50595):B16

^ "Gong Li voted China's Most Beautiful Person". China Daily. May 23, 2006. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-05/23/content_597722.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-17.

^ Min, Shen (May 22, 2006). "Gong Li Voted China's Most Beautiful Star". http://english.cri.cn/349/2006/05/22/44@92879.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-17.

^ Gault, Ylonda; Fannin, Rebecca A. (1997-07-14), "Hong Kong retail giant Tang ready to pluck Big Apple". Advertising Age. 68 (28):33

^ Soundwalk. Accessed Sept. 17, 2009.

^ Louis Vuitton Soundwalk. Accessed Sept. 20, 2009.

^ Audio Publishers Association. Accessed Sept. 20, 2009.

网友补充:1:中文名: 巩俐

外文名: Gong Li

国籍: 新加坡

民族: 汉族

出生地: 辽宁沈阳

出生日期: 1965年12月31日

星座: 摩羯座

职业: 著名演员

毕业院校: 中央戏剧学院

网友补充:2:这是在外国网站的百科里找的

Gong Li

Gong Li, May 2008

Chinese name 巩俐 (Traditional)

Chinese name 巩俐 (Simplified)

Pinyin Gǒng Lì (Mandarin)

Born December 31, 1965 (1965-12-31) (age 43)

Shenyang, China

Spouse(s) Ooi Hoe Soeng (1996-)

Gong Li (simplified Chinese: 巩俐; traditional Chinese: 巩俐; pinyin: Gǒng Lì; born December 31, 1965) is a China-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.[1]

She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.

She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.[2]

Contents [hide]

1 Early life

2 Career

3 Personal life

4 Filmography

5 Other information

6 Other works

7 See also

8 Notes

9 External links

[edit] Early life

Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, the fifth child in her family. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother, who was 40 when Gong was born, was a teacher.[3] Gong grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong.

Gong was accepted to the prestigious Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1985, and graduated in 1989.[4] While as a student at Central Academy of Drama, she was discovered by Zhang Yimou, who chose her for the lead role in Red Sorghum, his first film as a director.[5]

[edit] Career

Over the next several years after her 1987 debut in Red Sorghum, Gong received international acclaim for her roles in several more Zhang Yimou films:[6] She appeared in Ju Dou in 1990; Her performance in the Oscar-nominated Raise the Red Lantern put her in the international spotlight;[5] In The Story of Qiu Ju, she was named Best Actress at the 1992 Venice Film Festival. These roles established her reputation, according to Asiaweek, as "one of the world's most glamorous movie stars and an elegant throwback to Hollywood's golden era."[5]

In June 1998, Gong Li became a recipient of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Two years later, she was invited by the Berlin Film Festival to be the president of its international jury at the festival's 50th anniversary (2001 February) [7]

In 1993 she received a New York Film Critics Circle award for her role in Farewell My Concubine. Directed by Chen Kaige, the film was her first major role with a director other than Zhang Yimou. In 2006, Premiere Magazine ranked her performance in Farewell My Concubine as the 89th greatest performances of all time.

Gong Li was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 16 October 2000.[8]

Immune to political repercussions because of her fame, Gong Li began criticizing the censorship policy in China. Her films Farewell My Concubine and The Story of Qiu Ju were initially banned in China for being thinly-veiled critiques of the Chinese government.[7] Regarding the sexual content in Ju Dou, Chinese censorship deemed the film "a bad influence on the physical and spiritual health of young people."[6]

Despite her popularity, Gong avoided Hollywood for years, due to a lack of confidence in speaking English.[9] She made her English speaking debut in 2005 when she starred as the beautiful but vindictive Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha. Her performance was met with generally positive reviews.[10]

Her other English-language roles to date included Chinese Box in 1997, Miami Vice in 2006 and Hannibal Rising in 2007. In all three films, she learned her English lines phonetically.

[edit] Personal life

Her collaboration with director Zhang Yimou was highly publicized, but an affair with Zhang created a scandal that ended their professional relationship in 1995. They were, however, reunited in 2006 for Zhang's Curse of the Golden Flower.

In 1996, news began circulating that Gong had married Singaporean tobacco tycoon, Ooi Hoe Soeng (黄和祥). They were married in November 1996 at Hong Kong's China Club.[11][12]

Gong Li applied for Singapore citizenship in early 2008.[2] When overseas professional obligations prevented her from showing up at her scheduled August citizenship ceremony, she was harshly criticized for not making it a priority.[2] On Saturday November 8, 2008, Gong, in an effort to make amends, attended a citizenship ceremony held at Teck Ghee Community Club and received her Singapore citizenship certificate from Member of Parliament Lee Bee Wah.[2]

[edit] Filmography

Year English title Chinese title Role Notes

1987 Red Sorghum 红高梁 My Grandma Zhang Yimou's directorial debut, Golden Bear winner of 1988

1989 The Empress Dowager 西太后 Guilian

Mr. Sunshine 开心巨无霸

Codename Cougar 代号美洲豹 Ah Li Hundred Flowers Award for Best Supporting Actress, 1989

1990 A Terracotta Warrior 秦俑 Winter/Lili Chu Nominated – Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress

Ju Dou 菊豆 Ju Dou First Chinese film nominated for an Academy Award, entered at Cannes

1991 God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai 赌侠2之上海滩赌圣 Yu-Sin/Yu-Mong

Raise the Red Lantern 大红灯笼高高挂 Songlian see Raise the Red Lantern#Awards and wins

The Banquet 豪门夜宴 Waitress at banquet

1992 The Story of Qiu Ju 秋菊打官司 Qiu Ju Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress, 1993

Volpi Cup (Venice Film Festival) for Best Actress

Mary from Beijing 梦醒时分 Mary

1993 Farewell My Concubine 霸王别姬 Juxian New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress

Flirting Scholar 唐伯虎点秋香 Chow Heung

1994 Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountain 新天龙八部之天山童姥 Mo Han-Wen

A Soul Haunted by Painting 画魂 Pan Yuliang

To Live 活着 Xu Jiazhen Nominated — Chlotrudis Award for Best Actress

King of Western Chu 西楚霸王 Lu Zhi

1995 Shanghai Triad 摇啊摇,摇到外婆桥 Xiao Jingbao

1996 Temptress Moon 风月 Pang Ruyi Nominated – Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, 1997

1997 Chinese Box 中国匣子 Vivian

1998 The Emperor and the Assassin 荆柯刺秦王 Lady Zhao

2000 Breaking the Silence 漂亮妈妈 Sun Liying Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actress, 2000

Montreal World Film Festival for Best Actress, 2000

2002 Zhou Yu's Train 周渔的火车 Zhou Yu

2004 2046 2046 Su Li Zhen Wong Kar-wai, director

Eros 爱神 Miss Hua

2005 Memoirs of a Geisha 艺伎回忆录 Hatsumomo National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress

Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture

2006 Miami Vice 迈阿密风暴 Isabella

Curse of the Golden Flower 满城尽带黄金甲 Empress Phoenix Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, 2007

Hong Kong Film Critics Award for Best Actress, 2007

2007 Hannibal Rising 沉默的羔羊前传之揭开罪幕 Lady Murasaki Shikibu Lecter

2010 Shanghai 上海 Anna Lan-Ting

[edit] Other information

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (January 2009)

Gong Li was voted the most beautiful woman in China in 2006.[13][14]

Gong was a spokeswoman for Shanghai Tang clothing store.[15]

[edit] Other works

She narrated "Beijing" (2008), an audio walking tour by Louis Vuitton and Soundwalk[16][17], which won an Audie Award for best Original Work (2009)[18].

[edit] See also

Cinema of China

[edit] Notes

^ Kehr, Dave (2004-07-16). "Torn Between a Dreamy Idealist and a Veterinarian". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE6DC143AF935A25754C0A9629C8B63. Retrieved 2008-01-07.

^ a b c d Chong, Chee Kin (2008). "Gong Li is now a S'porean", Breaking News: Lifestyle, The Straits Times, November 10, 2008, www.straitstimes.com

^ Gong Li Sidebar

^ Gong Li Biography - Barnes & Noble.com

^ a b c Ghahremani, Yasmin; Stanmeyer, Anastacia (1999-09-24), "Nation builders". Asiaweek. 25 (38):74

^ a b Dargis, Manohla (2004-12-05), "Glamour's New Orientation". New York Times. 154 (53054):Arts & Leisure 1

^ a b No byline (2000-02-25), "FIRST LADY OF FILM". Asiaweek. 26 (7):34

^ "Gong Li". Food and Agriculture Organization. http://www.fao.org/getinvolved/ambassadors/ambassadors/ambassadors-gongli/en/. Retrieved September 16, 2009.

^ The Women of ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' | Memoirs of a Geisha | Movie News | Movies | Entertainment Weekly | 3

^ Lyttle, John (2006-01-16), "The eastern affront". New Statesman, 135 (4775):47

^ No byline (1997-02-10), "Gong Li & Ooi Hoe Seong". People. 47 (5):112

^ Louie, Elaine (1996-10-29), "Chronicle:Gong Li". New York Times. 146 (50595):B16

^ "Gong Li voted China's Most Beautiful Person". China Daily. May 23, 2006. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-05/23/content_597722.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-17.

^ Min, Shen (May 22, 2006). "Gong Li Voted China's Most Beautiful Star". http://english.cri.cn/349/2006/05/22/44@92879.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-17.

^ Gault, Ylonda; Fannin, Rebecca A. (1997-07-14), "Hong Kong retail giant Tang ready to pluck Big Apple". Advertising Age. 68 (28):33

^ Soundwalk. Accessed Sept. 17, 2009.

^ Louis Vuitton Soundwalk. Accessed Sept. 20, 2009.

^ Audio Publishers Association. Accessed Sept. 20, 2009.